The African National Congress (ANC) on Friday recommitted itself to free basic education and universal access to quality healthcare.
Cosatu’s national strike in protest against food, fuel and electricity prices this week hit economic activity hard.
Trade unions challenge the ANC leadership to adopt policy changes promised at Polokwane
Free State ANC chairperson Ace Magashule was re-elected unopposed on Thursday as the leader of the party in the province.
The ANC will announce a successor to embattled Eastern Cape Premier Nosimo Balindlela as soon as she returns from China, media reports say.
The ANC has reportedly proposed a merging of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court of Appeal. Is this an attack on the judiciary?
Mantashe: the North West, the Northern Cape and the Free State had been identified as areas where Luthuli House needed to intervene.
The imminent sacking of Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool and Eastern Cape counterpart Nosimo Balindlela has heightened tensions in ANC structures.
The ANC has certainly been nettled by media reports that it intends replacing its premiers in the Western and Eastern Cape.
The ANC’s Gwede Mantashe has defended his criticism of the Constitutional Court’s handling of its complaint against Cape Judge President John Hlophe.
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe on Wednesday dismissed the notion that the party’s new leadership consists of ”a bunch of leftists”.
The ANC retracted a statement on Tuesday that it would make an announcement on the reported axing of two premiers.
The ANC has shrugged off criticisms that recent remarks by its secretary general amounted to an attack on the independence of the judiciary.
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille on Friday lambasted the African National Congress for itself being counter-revolutionary.
The Independent Democrats (ID) on Sunday criticised the African National Congress (ANC) for attacking Constitutional Court judges.
African National Congress secretary general Gwede Mantashe has launched an extraordinary attack on the country’s top judges.
ANC Youth League conference runs behind schedule as NEC nominations are held up by a failure to reach consensus.
African National Youth League leader Julius Malema’s arch-rival helps Gwede Mantashe kill off the last efforts to challenge Malema’s authority.
A tense meeting between an ANC delegation and leaders of the Merafong Demarcation Forum was under way in Khutsong on Wednesday.
The ANC wants its deputy president, Kgalema Motlanthe, to be given a Cabinet post, ANC general secretary Gwede Mantashe said on Friday.
A united Constitutional Court deals Cape Judge President John Hlophe a devastating blow with a bombshell complaint to the Judicial Service Commission.
More revelations surfaced this week about Cape Judge President John Hlophe’s alleged attempt to influence Constitutional Court judges.
South Africa’s security chief on Friday accused rightwingers linked to the former apartheid government of fanning xenophobic violence that has spread to Cape Town, the second largest city and tourist centre. At least 42 people have been killed and thousands driven from their homes in 12 days of attacks.
City Press has successfully appealed against a press ombudsman finding over the accuracy and fairness of a report on African National Congress president Jacob Zuma, the Press Council Appeals Panel said on Friday. The article, headlined ”Cracks in Zuma’s NEC”, reported that Zuma became angry at a national executive committee [NEC] meeting on January 8.
President Thabo Mbeki on Monday reiterated his call for an immediate end to attacks on foreign nationals in Gauteng, which have left 22 people dead and up to 10Â 000 seeking refuge in shelters. ”Citizens from other countries on the African continent and beyond are as human as we are and deserve to be treated with respect,” the president.
Any increase in electricity prices should occur gradually over five years, Eskom was told on Friday at a summit in Sandton on the electricity crisis, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported. The government, labour, the African National Congress and community forums were represented at the summit.
The African National Congress and its labour allies called on Friday for electricity prices to rise only gradually, rejecting the state power firm’s appeal for a sharp hike to solve a dire power crisis. ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said it would be wrong for Eskom to use price rises to recover from past losses.
South Africa’s economy cannot afford a sharp electricity price increase, a leader of the African National Congress (ANC) said on Friday, adding that Eskom should not be allowed to use pricing to make up past losses. As part of efforts to tackle power shortages and fund infrastructure expansion, Eskom has requested a 53% increase in electricity tariffs.
The African Christian Democratic Party, Democratic Alliance, Independent Democrats and United Democratic Movement have filed a joint submission in the Pretoria High Court as a friend of the court in support of Hugh Glenister’s bid to stop the disbanding of the Scorpions, the parties said on Thursday.
African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma has received support from alliance partners to run for presidential elections, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said on Sunday. ”We will not only be accompanying him to court but to the Union Buildings as the next president of South Africa,” he said, announcing the outcome of an alliance.
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African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma on Friday called for a closure of the ”chapter of tension and mistrust” between the ruling party and its alliance partners. The relationship between the ANC and its alliance partners had become somewhat strained under the previous leadership of national President Thabo Mbeki.
The African National Congress (ANC) said on Tuesday the Khampepe report highlighted many of its concerns about the Directorate of Special Operations (DSO), which led to its resolution to have the unit moved to the police. ”That report raises the same concerns we are raising, which led to the raising of the ANC resolution,” said the party’s secretary general.